Eglise Saint Pierre le Puellier (Saint Peter the Puellier Church), Tours

Just north of the Place Plumereau you can find the ruins of the Church of Saint Peter the Puellier. This ancient house of worship was established in 512 at the initiative of Clotilde, the wife of King Franc Clovis.

The church is the collegiate of an ancient monastery. Sold as national property during the French Revolution, it was almost completely destroyed by its new owners. All that remains are the remains of a side aisle, transformed into a dwelling. These have been registered as historical monuments since 1946.

The most recent building began around 1170 and was completed about ten years later. Built in Western Gothic style , it undoubtedly comprises a nave accompanied by simple side aisles, a transept and an east-facing choir terminated by a flat apse; a bell tower ending in a spire probably stands at the crossing of the transept.

After the destruction following the French Revolution, part of the first span and the second span in its entirety of the north aisle remain. Walls, built to the east and to the south and resting on the arcades of the second bay, transform the space into a dwelling, the volume of which is divided into two floors by a floor. One room, however, retains its western Gothic-type vault. The northern wall of the second bay is pierced with two semicircular bays decorated with a cord extending on either side - this bay is original, those lighting the east and south are modern. An identical bay exists on the preserved part of the first bay.

A building, built to the west on the site of the first aisle of the aisle, preserves some vestiges of the walls of the church. The visible capitals to the northeast of the building (junction of the second and third aisle span) have remained in their original state, those placed opposite, to the southeast, have been resumed.